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MicroEye - online image-based Tool Wear Monitoring System

MicroEye – an online image-based TWM system with modular 3D-printed components to overcome the two problems. MicroEye offers great flexibility in its operation through the use of an active 6-DOF (degree of freedom) robotics arm with a camera at the end-effector. MicroEye does not require tool detachment to perform tool wear monitoring and can be safely placed outside the machining area. MicroEye is the first open-sourced, 3D-printed components and active dynamic-type TWM system for the application of micro-milling. MicroEye can be built at a low-cost (approximately US$ 872, including the camera). MicroEye is suitable for various micro-milling sites, from laboratory scale to middle-low workshop.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000141